HISTORY OF THE DUROC 



Jackson, of Ohio, was Longfellow 6815, 

 from the Walter & Bro. herd and Lord 

 Clinton, a Col. M. boar, from the Morton 

 herd. He also had sows from the C. C. 

 Brawley herd and the Morton herd, and 

 it was one of these latter, Agnes X. 15250, 

 that he crossed with old Longfellow that 

 produced Mabel, the dam of Orion Chief, 

 head of the Orion Chiefs and the Orion 

 Cherry King families, so popular at this 

 writing. The sire of Orion Chief, Orion 

 II 6537, and Chief of Ohio 9775, a litter 

 mate to Ohio Chief, were purchased from 

 Morton. Surprise, probably one of the 

 greatest individuals produced in the early 

 part of 1900, was by Chief of Ohio, out of 

 Mayflower, a daughter of Lord Clinton. 



One of the early boars of the R. C. Watt 

 herd in Ohio was Moquette 3415, a son of 

 Duke of Star Herd, a winner at the Co- 

 lumbian Exposition. Mr. Watt had pur- 

 chased him from Walter & Bro., as he had 

 also Dora Wonder, a daughter of Lucy 

 Keever, and in this herd King Watt was 

 also used. Bob Watt developed the sow 

 family of Cedarville Queens, the original 

 Cedarville Queen being a daughter of Van- 

 Ausdal's Best, a sow tracing to Hoosier 

 King through the Abernathy herd and the 



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